how you can afford paid courses in your nonprofit

how you can afford paid courses in your nonprofit

Sometimes your team may need to join a paid course or training programme. Maybe their work is impacted by changes in the law or regulations they need to apply. Or you employed someone with potential and enthusiasm who needs a bit more training on the topic. So let’s...

how can you facilitate learning in your nonprofit?

how can you facilitate learning in your nonprofit?

As Daniel Pink says in his famous TED talk, mastery is important for job satisfaction. People want to get better at what they do and feel it. They want to become experts in something - or at least to feel they are developing expertise over time. This is also true of...

What do you need to know?

What do you need to know?

Passion is what drives most of us in nonprofits. Passion is very powerful. And also very important to be able to keep going when others might give up. But in addition to passion there's also things you need to know to keep your nonprofit alive. To serve your community...

Fulfillment at work

Fulfillment at work

One of the most powerful TED videos I ever saw is the one where Daniel Pink explains what motivates people at work. He highlights three main elements: autonomy, mastery and purpose, that together ensure people’s fulfillment at work. Purpose In nonprofits, purpose is...

Setting healthy boundaries

Setting healthy boundaries

One of the things that most nonprofit leaders and team members find hard is setting healthy boundaries and sticking with them. In a way, it’s part of taking hard decisions. What are hard decisions? Hard decisions are for instance decisions to say no to toxic mantras...

Planners

Planners

This is for all my nonprofit leaders, executive directors, managers and founders: my printed planners. I want to guide you through 14 key topics to help you get a grip on your nonprofit core work, your system, your team and your financial situation. I want to be at...

Behind every hard conversation is a hard decision

Behind every hard conversation is a hard decision

Nonprofit leaders face the same challenges as leaders in any other sector. Having hard conversations is one of them. And behind every hard conversation is a hard decision. Sometimes a team member isn’t performing the way they should. A vendor delivers services or...

You will need to have hard conversations

You will need to have hard conversations

As a nonprofit leader you face the same challenges as managers in companies and government bodies. And one of them is that you will need to have hard conversations. With your stakeholders. Or with your donors. With your vendors. And yes, also with your team members....

your stories don’t need to be bad news stories

your stories don’t need to be bad news stories

One more thing that’s important in stories: your stories don’t need to be bad news stories. We all know some of us prefer romantic movies over family tragedies. Some people like watching comedy instead of horror movies. But when it comes to nonprofit stories, we tend...